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In a year when costs have been skyrocketing in the construction industry, Ontario employers can look forward to stable Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) premiums for the coming year. In a statement released Oct. 31, the Government of Ontario announced it wouldn’t be raising the employer-paid premiums for 2024.
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Last weekend saw another milestone achieved for British Columbia’s Broadway Subway Project. A second tunnel-boring machine broke through the east wall at the site of the future Oak-VGH Station, Oct. 28. The boring machine, named Elsie, broke through following the first boring machine’s breakthrough Oct. 12.
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Dufferin Aggregates is taking advantage of an unseasonably warm October in Ontario. The company received approval from the Township of Puslinch to extend its year, maintaining summer hours and haulage amounts into December. The Aberfoyle Pit is normally allowed to operate from May 1 to Nov. 15, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays. Dufferin received approval at an Oct. 18 meeting to extend those hours for one month, to Dec. 15, and add an extra hour in the morning, for a start time of 7 a.m.
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Three months after City of Montreal engineers closed down part of Notre-Dame Street East for emergency repairs, the major artery remains at one lane. The lane was closed in July when city workers discovered the cover to the underground sewer entrance was cracked, leaving the area unsafe for drivers. The large manhole covers nearly 4.5 square metres, making the hole wide enough to swallow a small car.
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The University of Waterloo’s Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology is breaking boundaries. Concrete, asphalt, aggregates — you may know the ingredients for a good road, but what makes for a good road recipe? At the University of Waterloo’s (UW) Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology (CPATT), the cookbook for the future of Canada’s roads is being written, and the not-so-secret ingredient is science.
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Alberta high school students are getting more opportunities to gain meaningful experience in the trades through career-based programming. The Government of Alberta announced its expansion of the dual credit grant program for the 2023-2024 school year. The grant money will total $3.6 million distributed across 47 school authorities to create new dual credit programming or expand existing dual credit classes.
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The Municipality of Chatham-Kent is calling out the province for not providing clear timelines for the completion of projects on Highway 401 between Tilbury and London. At a meeting Oct. 16 council voted unanimously to ask the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (MTO) for clarification on when the projects would be completed, after recent MTO updates on the status of provincial projects failed to provide a clear time frame for the area.
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A new player is coming to the small articulated loader space in 2024. New Holland Construction has decided to diversify its product portfolio by adding a new category to its lineup. The company announced five new models of small articulated loaders coming next year. The five models will be called the ML12, ML12T, ML15, ML22X and ML23 and will be used primarily for light construction, hauling and maintenance jobs.
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Caterpillar’s newly released next-generation compact track loaders were built on the feedback of real end-users. The all-new Cat 255 and 265 compact track loaders build on the company’s previous success with the D3 series compact track loader with improved engine performance, lift and tilt performance, stability, operator comfort and technology.
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